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  • From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
  • To: Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: re: BH, word order, now and then
  • Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:18:09 -0400


shalom vince

>... my contention has always been that if you bracket the
> consecutives in the classical idiom, you have the same
> basic syntax from day one... until the present.

see below under last point.

>been teaching myself modern hebrew so i can access materials on
> masoretic studies.

kol ha-kavod. matay tavo utevaqqer otanu po biyrushalayim?

> that doesn't mean i've got all the answers! just the basic key

on generating hebrew clauses from an SVO template and ignoring vav
ha-hippux, you might study and respond to Buth, "Functional Grammar, Hebrew
and Aramaic", especially sections 3.0-3.2 (pp. 80-83) in Bodine,ed., 1995.
By all means generate your structures but keep them psychologically trim
and functionally productive. a Pn-V-S-O produces a much more satisfactory
read than the S-V-O's on the market. [Pn=n-ary pragmatic slot.] and
Pn-V-S-O does not preclude putting a V into the P slot, e.g. with
jussives, as you will have seen in my verbless clause article in
miller,ed., 1999, for V(participle)-S-X and the rare X-V(participle)-S-X.

braxot leshana tova
randall buth




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